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Alois Pfeiffer

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Alois Pfeiffer
Pfeiffer in 1985
European Commissioner for Economic Affairs and Employment
In office
1985 – 1 August 1987
PresidentJacques Delors
Succeeded byPeter Schmidhuber
Personal details
Born(1924-09-25)25 September 1924
Bauerbach, Thuringia, Germany
Died1 August 1987(1987-08-01) (aged 62)
Düsseldorf, West Germany
Political partySocial Democratic Party of Germany

Alois Pfeiffer (25 September 1924 – 1 August 1987) was a German trade unionist who served as a European Commissioner in the 1980s.

Pfeiffer was born on 25 September 1924 in Bauerbach in Thuringia.[1] He worked as a forester, and then became a director of the Horticulture, Agriculture and Forestry Union, serving as the union's president from 1969 to 1975. He also served for a decade on the main board of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB).[1]

A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD), in 1985, he was appointed as one of West Germany's two European Commissioners on the first Delors Commission, as Commissioner for Economic affairs and employment.

He died in office on 1 August 1987,[2] in Düsseldorf, and on 22 September was replaced as Commissioner by Peter Schmidhuber.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b "A. (Alois) Pfeiffer". Europa Nu (in Dutch). Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  2. ^ "DECEASE OF MR ALOIS PFEIFFER". 1 August 1987. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  3. ^ Drillien, Pierre (30 June 1989). European Yearbook 1987. Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. p. EC 12. ISBN 90-247-2332-9. Retrieved 4 May 2020 – via Google Books.
Political offices
Preceded by German European Commissioner
1985–1987
Succeeded by